Peer Exchange Workshop on the "Perfect World of Measuring Congestion"
Workshop Summary Report

APPENDIX A: WORKSHOP AGENDA

Peer Exchange Workshop on the “Perfect World of Measuring Congestion”

Federal Highway Administration, Office of Operations

December 17-18, 2013
USDOT Conference Room #6
1200 New Jersey Ave, SE, Washington, DC

Dec 17th AM 8:30a to 12p	Session 1: Setting the Stage and Expectations Introductions Overview of FHWA project Workshop goal: provide input for FHWA 5-year research plan. Brief summary of white papers, focusing on capability maturity framework.
	Session 2: Visioning/ Ideal State/Best Practices Open discussion by all participants. If time/resources/data were unconstrained, how would we structure performance monitoring and management programs? Address data, tools, external variables, etc.
Dec 17th PM 1p to 4:30p	Session 3: Barriers, Hurdles, Unresolved Issues What are barriers to the “Ideal State” discussed before lunch? Don’t limit to big or small barriers, or easily solved barriers, just compile a listing of most important.
	Session 4: Stepping Stones to the Ideal State Provide structure and priority to barrier removal. What barriers, when removed or mitigated, could provide the most cost-effective advances in operations performance management practices?
Dec 18th AM 8:30a to 11:30a	Session 5: Crafting a Research Plan Summarize yesterday’s discussion of barriers and hurdles, gather feedback/confirmation. Discuss logical research projects that address priority barriers. Identify related efforts and stakeholders.
	Session 6: Closure and Next Steps Summarize research project concepts, gather feedback/confirmation. Distribution of workshop notes to participants. Discuss future avenues for involvement and peer exchange.